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Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes
Parent companyÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Statusuniversity press
Founded1980; 44 years ago (1980)[1]
Country of originSwitzerland
Headquarters locationRolex Learning Center
Key peopleJacques Neirynck
Nonfiction topicsscientific, engineering, technology, research
Fiction genresAcademic, scientific
ImprintsEPFL Press
Épistémé
Quanto
Éditions 41
Savoir suisse[2]
Official websitewww.epflpress.org

The EPFL Press, formerly Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR), is a Swiss independent scientific publishing house and a university press affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. EPFL Press was founded in 1980 and is based on the EPFL campus, in the Rolex Learning Center.[3]

Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne


Publications

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The EPFL Press publishes Le savoir suisse. This series was created in 2002 in collaboration with Bertil Galland. Between 2002 and 2012, it edited 88 books and sold 150,000 copies (in French).[4] Twenty-eight of these books were translated, mainly into German.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ (in French) La maison d'édition (page visited on 11 October 2013).
  2. ^ "Epfl Press".
  3. ^ http://www.ppur.org (page visited on 11 October 2013).
  4. ^ a b Nicolas Dufour, "La collection 'Le Savoir suisse' vise d'autres terres", Le Temps, Thursday 1 November 2012.
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